Platform/2012-Q2-Goals

GFX

• [ON TRACK] complete and ship OMTC for native fennec
• [ON TRACK] B2G work?
• [ON TRACK] Moving other pieces of work off the main thread
• [ON TRACK] Gaming?
• [ON TRACK] Azure resurrection
• [ON TRACK] Skia
• Other important Q2 work
  • Imagelib improvements
  • BugKill
  • Increase number of regular contributors

Layout

• [ON TRACK] Ship Mobile Font Inflation project on Fennec Beta & Release
• [ON TRACK] Complete Graphite Fonts Project
  • Enable by default and release publicly
• [ON TRACK] Invalidation via DisplayList Analysis(bug 539356)
• [ON TRACK] SVG migration to DisplayList (Performance)
• [ON TRACK] Implement CSS spec for vertical flexbox
  • horizontal flexbox done in early Q2
• [ON TRACK] Add image visibility API (bug 689623)
• [CARRY OVER] Continue View class removal (bug 337801)
• [ON TRACK] Implement the auto value for the HTML dir attribute (bug 548206)
• [ON TRACK] Begin CSS Grid Implementation
• [ON TRACK] Begin CSS Vertical Text Implementation
• [ON TRACK] Begin CSS Pagination
  • CSS2.1 bugs (need list)
  • CSS2.1 features (need list)

Video

• [ON TRACK] Get Firefox WebRTC code interoperating with Google's WebRTC code
• [ON TRACK] Ship Camera API still image support (based on getUserMedia) for Fennec and B2G in time for App Store Launch
• [ON TRACK] Land Media Plugin API (MPAPI) for Mobile in mozilla-central
• [ON TRACK] Land OPUS support in mozilla-central
• [ON TRACK] Resolve our non-free codec position on desktop

DOM

• [ON TRACK] New DOM bindings in place for CanvasContext and CSS2Properties
• [ON TRACK] DOM bindings for the native BrowserID API implementation
• [ON TRACK] HTML5 menu implementation, or something like it
• [ON TRACK] Prevent, to a reasonable extent, background tabs from starving the main thread
• [ON TRACK] Reduce CC pauses significantly when there are cycles to collect
• [ON TRACK] Review Shadow DOM and decide what to do with it and the rest of the Webcomponents proposal.
• [ON TRACK] Make IndexedDB ready for e10s (for B2G)

WebAPI

• [ON TRACK] Security model
• [ON TRACK] Device Storage API
• [ON TRACK] Idle API
• [ON TRACK] Unprefix IndexedDB
• [ON TRACK] Screen Orientation
• [ON TRACK] Appcache (depends on how much help we'll get on IndexedDB)
• [ON TRACK] Spec API for WebTelephony conference calls (not implemented)
• [ON TRACK] Support B2G going multiprocess
• [ON TRACK] Proximity/AmbientLight Sensors
• [ON TRACK] B2G WebActivities spec (not implemented) (WebActivities, effectively same as WebIntents)
• [ON TRACK] String encoding/decoding

Accessibility

• [ON TRACK] Increase performance by 30% for Speech Recognition use cases.
• [ON TRACK] Have usable mozbase platform automated tests.
• [ON TRACK] Get Android a11y into a release channel.
• [ON TRACK] Have a working prototype of a B2G screen reader.
• [ON TRACK] Have an alpha version of a mobile gesture addon.
• [ON TRACK] Bring OSX Firefox a11y on par with Win/Linux
• other: canvas bounds work?, UIA?, open a11y alliance, ARIA conformance...

Networking

• [ON TRACK] 723577, 723582, 722033, 722034: Resolve listed high priority cache locking/async issues.
  • Nick Hurley and Michal Novotny will lead this effort.
• [ON TRACK] 737470: Implement and land SPDY v3.
  • Patrick McManus will lead this effort.
• [ON TRACK] 735242 Fix bug in which Firefox can display conflicting network states.
  • Patrick McManus will lead this effort.
• [ON TRACK] Get Stone Ridge testing up and running. Should be running at least one test daily against multiple NeckoNet profiles and reporting results publicly.
  • Nick Hurley will lead this effort.
• [ON TRACK] Be able to show working demo of HTML5 video consumption via DASH, even if whole specification is not implemented.
  • Steve Workman will lead this effort.
• [ON TRACK] Improve WebSockets support.
  • 704447: Improve large blob support for WebSockets.
  • 713023, 713026: Improve support for Websockets when using HTTP proxy server.
  • 695636, 711793, 712191: Various other WebSockets fixes.
  • Jason Duell will lead this effort.
• [ON TRACK] Get automated NSS tests related to Firefox ready for deployment to Mozilla test infrastructure on tier-1 platforms.
  • Brian Smith will lead this effort.
• [ON TRACK] Resolve all networking security bugs that received a designation of sg:moderate or higher more than six weeks ago. This is a permanent goal for the group.
  • Brian Smith will lead this effort.